Good morning, welcome to the Tennant Company Annual Shareholders Meeting. I would now like to turn the meeting over to David Huml, Tennant's President and CEO. Please go ahead, Mr. Huml.
Good morning, everyone. I want to welcome you and thank you for joining us at Tennant Company's virtual annual shareholders meeting. We are glad you could join us today. We continue to believe that holding a virtual annual meeting expands shareholder access. Our shareholders in any part of the country can attend this meeting. Non-shareholders can listen to this webcast over the Internet. Before we begin, I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to our current board of directors, our management team, independent auditors, and the inspector of election.
Our board members who are on the call today in addition to me are Patrick E. Allen, former Chief Financial Officer, Collins Aerospace. Azita Arvani, former Chief Executive Officer of Rakuten Symphony. Carol Eicher, former Chief Executive Officer of Innocor, Inc. Jim Glerum, former Vice Chairman, Investment Banking at Citigroup. Maria Green, former Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Ingersoll Rand plc. Andrew Hider, President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, Baxter International Inc. Tim Morse, former Chief Executive Officer for Ten-X. Don Mulligan, former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for General Mills, Inc. Mark W. Sheahan, President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors for Graco Inc., and David Windley, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HootRecruit, formerly IQTalent Partners at Caldwell.
The members of our senior management team who are also present are Barb Balinski, Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer. Kristin Erickson, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary and Chief Human Resources Officer, Pat Schottler, Senior Vice President, Robotics. Fay West, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Rusty Zay, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. Also in attendance on behalf of Deloitte & Touche LLP, our independent auditing firm, is Scott Loveless. Finally, I would like to introduce Cheryl Niebling, who has been appointed as Inspector of Election for the purpose of conducting the voting. Now we'll proceed with the business portion of the meeting. For that purpose, it is my pleasure to call this annual meeting to order and to ask Kristin Erickson, Secretary of the company, to handle the business portion of this meeting.
Let me begin by talking about how this meeting will operate. A virtual meeting is one that takes place by an electronic format. The underlying mechanics are much like our investor web conference calls. An audio feed from this meeting is being webcast as we speak. The service we are using incorporates shareholder validation capabilities, which means that any shareholder can vote in real time during the meeting until the polls are closed, and any shareholder may submit questions while the meeting is in progress. After the business portion of this meeting is adjourned, we will answer questions submitted on the virtual meeting website. I hope that you entered this meeting by using your 12-digit control number. If you did not, you will be unable to vote your shares or submit questions during the meeting.
If you logged into the meeting with your control number, you may ask a question by typing it into the box at the bottom of the screen any time during this meeting. The polls to vote online are now open. If you have not yet submitted a proxy and wish to vote on these items or wish to revoke a proxy you have previously voted, you may vote your shares by clicking on the Vote Here button on your screen now. You will need the control number provided on your proxy in order to vote your shares online. If you have already given your proxy to management, you need not vote again because the persons designated as proxies will vote for you. However, you may revoke your proxy by voting virtually at this meeting. I can report that notice of this meeting was properly mailed to our shareholders.
A complete list of shareholders entitled to vote at this meeting is maintained by the company. There were 18,007,425 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date, March 5, 2026. Under the company's bylaws, the presence in person or by proxy of shareholders entitled to cast a majority of all votes entitled to be cast at this meeting constitutes a quorum. The Inspector of Election has informed me that a quorum is present for purposes of conducting the business of this meeting. We have three proposals before us as presented in the proxy statement. The first is to elect three Class One directors for 3-year terms. The second is to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2026.
Three is the advisory approval of executive compensation. The voting is now closed. All votes have been tallied, and I have been informed by the Inspector of Election that there are sufficient votes to elect Ms. Eicher, Ms. Green, and Mr. Mulligan as directors for a 3-year term ending 2029, to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2026, and to support the advisory approval of compensation of the company's named executives.
As Secretary of the company, I will keep the Inspector of Election certificates with the records of this meeting, which can be viewed at the offices of the company. Also available for inspection by the shareholders in the offices of the company are copies of the minutes from the April 29th, 2025 annual shareholders meeting, notice of this meeting and proxy statement, proxy, and an affidavit of mailing certifying to the timely mailing on or about March 18th, 2026 of the proxy materials to all shareholders of record as of the record date. Copies of the notice of meeting and proxy statement and the proxy are also posted on the virtual meeting site.
Thanks, Kristin. At this point, we would be happy to take your questions. If you have logged into the meeting with your control number and would like to ask a question, you may do so now by typing your question into the box at the bottom of the screen. We will prioritize questions that relate to proposals considered at this meeting. If you have general questions about Tennant Company, please include your contact information along with your question so that we can respond to you after the meeting. We have allotted up to 10 minutes to answer questions. We will now pause to allow questions to be submitted.
Note that you will be able to find the details about first quarter performance on our website at www.investors.tennantco.com on May first, where you will be able to read our first quarter earnings release and listen or read the transcript from our first quarter earnings call.
We have received no questions. If at any time you have a question about Tennant Company that you wish to have answered, our investor relations contact is Lorenzo Bassi, Vice President of Finance. I'd like to conclude by thanking everyone again for participating in today's meeting and for your continued support of Tennant Company. The meeting is now adjourned.
That concludes our meeting today. You may now disconnect.